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03-05-2014, 06:52 PM
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In Love with Danielle
Join Date: Feb 2014
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Many thanks, Anoree!
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Against the day troublemakers force excessive countermeasure work, one can consider having new members post a nominal "peace bond" ($10 should be enough) through your standard payment schemes, with all but 10% refunded (to pay for vetting labor) after say, 10 civil posts. The downside is that some welcome would-be participants might then never post. A less effective countermeasure would be the use of a CAPTCHA hurdle for every post. Today, these are typically self-financing through the use of two puzzles, one of which generates useful work (e.g. human-assisted image recognition). RonTheLogician |
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03-05-2014, 09:07 PM
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Moderator
Join Date: Oct 2008
Location: Germany
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Fortunately the amount of spammers streaming in has decreased considerably. In February, we had only 737 who hit their head on our second barrier (my approval) with 24 Users being accepted. The first barrier is the confirmation of the used email address. 761 registrations stranded there. No post had to be deleted. This is a workload that can easily be handled. I won't go specific here, but I do have my well working procedures and tools.  Requesting a fee to register would put a lot of people off. We have the Forum free for a reason. Apart from that, a registration fee would be much more work, including handling restitution claims and fraudulent payments. Not worth the effort in my eyes. To my knowledge, ALL current CAPTCHA mechanisms are cracked or dodged by SPAM bots. There are even some poor people sitting in some cheap loan countries, getting paid to solve CAPTCHA puzzles or Question and Answer riddles. Plus, we don't want our valued real people here to go through that on every post they make. Again, thanks for the suggestions. We really appreciate your effort to help us here. |
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03-07-2014, 01:07 AM
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In Love with Danielle
Join Date: Feb 2014
Posts: 189
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Web site internationalization
Yes, English is widely understood, especially in written form. But what if one could automatically translate this Web site into other languages? Maybe you can! For some time now, Google, Microsoft (and maybe more) third parties have provided a free widget one can embed into a Web page which lets the reader translate the page into the human language of his choice. The only issue in my mind is whether these would be compatible with the constraints of vBulletin. (And even if so, extracting and setting the default target language automatically across multiple pages might be problematic.)
I got to thinking about this indirectly... Supposedly, guys in Latin America are more often fond of models with healthy cabooses than those in the States. Too bad they don't have Spanish and Portuguese versions of the site, I sighed...Of course, the ultimate goal of this site is to enhance revenue. So maybe internationalization is only important if many currencies can be supported, too. |
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04-22-2014, 02:50 AM
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Danielle Junkie
Join Date: Mar 2014
Location: New Hampshire, where men are men and sheep are nervous
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And now for something completely different...
Techie question: why do I have to constantly re-login to posting questions or other stuff on the message boards? I've reached the point where I just keep my username in a paste buffer and type in my password. It's not a bad problem - I can cut-and-paste, I'm just curious...
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04-22-2014, 10:27 AM
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Moderator
Join Date: Oct 2008
Location: Germany
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You could try to enable cookies for danielleftv.com in your browser and / or whitelisting it in your security software. |
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04-24-2014, 01:50 AM
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Danielle Junkie
Join Date: Mar 2014
Location: New Hampshire, where men are men and sheep are nervous
Posts: 32
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If it works, I'll send you some cookies. Or maybe Danielle dressed as a Girl Scout...? 
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04-26-2014, 03:58 AM
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Join Date: Oct 2008
Location: Germany
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Hey, that's actually a nice theme idea for a shoot! Danielle as a cookie selling Girl Scout that ... seduces the buyer. Danielle, do you still have a Girl Scout uniform? |
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